Embree makes second-team All-Region

March 19, 2008

Senior forward Carrie Embree, in her first season of college basketball after a four-year layoff, Tuesday was named to the D3hoops.com All-West Region second team.

Embree, the MIAC Player of the Year, helped the Tommies to a 20-7 finish, a share of the conference championship and a berth in the NCAA playoffs.

Embree was among 15 players named first-team All-MIAC and also made the conference's seven-player All-Rookie Team.

Embree recorded eight double-doubles this season in points and rebounds, and UST is 10-2 when she scores 16 or more points. She's averaging 14.9 ppg, and 8.6 rpg while shooting 51% from the floor. In her five seasons in college softball and basketball she contributed to five MIAC titles and five NCAA playoff trips, and her teams' combined MIAC record was 117-7. She's the lone female athlete in MIAC history to be a two-time All-American, a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American and play on two NCAA champion teams.

Four other MIAC women's players made the West Region honor teams -- Gustavus' Jess Vadnais and Bethel's Annagret Nautsch made first team; Concordia's Melanie Hageman made second team; and Macalester's Trina PaStarr made third team.